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What's the landing fee $30? If you land out and have to hire of borrow a car, you'll pay double that

What's wrong with Gilgi or Armidale? Why the requirement for a private airfield?

Why the requirement of over 800 metres? There are a few but some distance from Armidale (30 to 50 ks by road). Most of the Ag strips are unused these days and fallen into disrepair. Tony Galls at Wilsons crk the south side of Uralla and Taylors strip at Kentucky a bit further south again are the only ones that come to mind. Is Armidale charging that much now for landing fees That you have to fly out of somewhere else?

Beavers in Oz usually don't have heaters, just straight out pipe.

Typical eastern block country, I looked up Austers version of an Ag aircraft Auster Agricola - Wikipedia Looks very similar design to the Zlin, the Chek's took an outdated 50's design and decided to make in the 80's I think. With the Walter engine I think they were rated at a ton load.

Zlin T37, they originally built them with a radial. Looks to be a copy of an Auster Agricoler, There were a couple of the turbines in Unzud. They had a Walter turbine.

Found RAAF mostly friendly, Willy and Amberly can be hard to get on with. Held at Newcastle quite a few times over the heads in strong westerlies, if they have anything inbound (Airline or military) they won't let you anywhere near the place. Sydney has Victor one where you can fly right beside one of Australia's busiest airports, at Williamtown they won't let you anywhere near them with very little traffic.

Unbelievable for any Australian to see such interaction between ATC and lighties. In Oz it's stay away we don't want you here at any control zone.

Or Google is

And the JSF

Agreed KG

Minister is Michael McCormack, good luck with that.

Straight tail 182 good machine. I wouldn't worry about converting it to tailwheel, will cost you a lot of dollars (25K+) even if you get cheap parts. A 180 is no more capable than a 182 except for an extremely rough airstrip. I worked out of Latrobe a bit summer before last on fires, busy place that doesn't seem to have changed much in 40 years.

I don't know how you can convince those of us who have had BAD experiences with CASA to start trusting them.

Should be like the States and have uncontrolled over major airfields, all the traffic is approaching or taking off so at a lot lower level than 18,0000.

They were going for the clear area, finished up in the trees.

Just had a look at the form, it might be Confidential but you still have to put your contact details. Anybody I know who flys for a living would not submit one of those for the fear of consequences. As I said before, anything to do with CASA is toxic and consider ATSB as part of the system. Several times through my career I have tried to let them know about major problems, there was no help, all I got was increased attention by adits and surveillance. Take a look at prune and what they did to Glen Buckley. Whistle blowers in Australia are treated like crimminals.

Part 61, biggest waste of time and money, no gains only pain. No swap with FAA or JAA. Typical CASA, wasted space.

Yep, typical Jon Thorpe design same as the Cherokee. Your turn 750

Nice Stampe

Looks to be some clear country just behind, points to loss of control.

There's only recommended, no mandated as far as I know. I say the destination then time.

Or even "Parkes traffic, Cessna 172, ABC, 10 miles east, 4000, Inbound, Parkes 15"?

The worst I've come across are pilots who have a 1 year or 2 on a fresh commercial, they know it all and spray out calls as quick as they can. Bad radio calls are covered by every form of flying, from students through to an odd airline pilot, most are professionals and treat it as such. We've all heard (or half heard) a 2 stroke ultralight of some sort where an un-shielded ignition makes the transmission unreadable. Or gliders where their battery is running on 3 volts and the transmission is almost inaudible, some areas gliders have a reputation for not talking at all (Also IFR but that's for another thread). Goes right through from machine gun transmissions from mail run pilots to the odd smug rookie talking down to everybody in a regional airliner. We all have to try and make our calls understandable. No need to try and complicate with all sorts of terms and procedure. Just tell people where you are and your intentions in the simplest of terms. Example: "5 miles Southwest 3000 inbound". Also no need to give a highly detailed rundown on your circuit joining just what leg and if not standard then just a wide or close, another example: "Joining a close downwind low level for 03" No need to say nautical miles, that's what we work in, we all know that. Also no need to say "This time" after every transmission, we all know what the time is, it's just wasted bandwidth.

Trouble is not many have much faith in CASA, my dealings with CASA I avoid them at all costs. That's a cynical way of looking at things but 40 years both being an operator and flying for a living, my experience is their toxic. I know that's the wrong attitude.